"I saw the angel's--Lariel's--last moments. He was betrayed by his allies, and struck down by...something that looked like Deskari, but wasn't Deskari..." 

HOLY SHIT THIS IS SO COOL.

"You have to come back to the village with us! If you can do that on command, Chief Sull will have no choice but to listen." 

"Well...I never meant to...I was just going to find the sword and..." can she hand it to Lann? 

Nope. She can make it manifest, with a soothing glow, but the moment she tries to let go of it, it simply vanishes. 

"--Well, I promised to get Seelah, and Anevia, and Camellia, back to the surface. I can come back afterwards and help." 

"...There's a guy from the surface, who made his way to the village. We didn't get a lot out of him--he was pretty rude, honestly--but if you're looking for passengers, you could come talk to Chief Sull, and get him, and then go." 

"How far is it to your village?" 

"Not very far." 

"Alright, I guess." Anevia does not look happy about the continued delays. 

"So, is everyone in your village like you two?" Lusilla asks, once they're out of the worked-stone area the angel's sword was in, and in the natural tunnels between there and the village. 

Snort. "What, mongrels? Yeah." 

"Neathers," Wenduag hisses. "We call ourselves Neathers. Surfacers call us mongrels." 

"...That doesn't...seem...polite? Of them?" 

Lann shrugs. "It's not worth fighting over." 

Wenduag gives him a deeply, deeply unimpressed look. 

Lann clearly has a greater ability than Lusilla does to refrain from dying on hills. Except--"Do you get a lot of surface people down here? If it would be a fight to use the right word." 

"Well, not really, but..." 

"Lann is obsessed with the surface." 

"I am not obsessed." 

Wenduag is not calling bullshit out loud with her voice but she is thinking it at the top of her lungs. 

"So what was that place, anyway? The room back there?" 

"That's where we keep the relics of the first crusade. Sometimes we even come and blow the dust off the exhibits." 

"The first crusade? Have you guys really been down here that long?" 

"Yeah. We call ourselves the Underground Crusaders when we're feeling fancy."